"Why would we ever want to go back……" — Cornelia Funke
"Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape."
—
Cornelia Funke
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
172 Quotes by Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke has 172 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by…
-
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
-
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
-
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
-
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
-
Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
-
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives…
-
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
-
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.
-
I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children…
-
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
-
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
See all 172 quotes by Cornelia Funke »
More Accommodating Quotes
This quote is filed under Accommodating Quotes,
one of 43 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.
— Sun Tzu
-
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
— Peter Ackroyd
-
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic…
— Nathan Rosenberg
-
Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God,…
— Ben Stiller
-
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of…
— Unknown Author
-
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative.…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
-
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
-
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than…
— Ann Coulter
-
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where…
— Julius Evola
-
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with…
— Jon Katz
-
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the…
— Jeri Ryan
-
It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions.
— Adrian Tan
See all 43 Accommodating Quotes »